STINGER by Robert McCammon - SIGNED LIMITED EDITION BOOK
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Dust jacket and interior illustrations by Les Edwards
First published as a paperback original in 1988, Stinger
remains one of Robert McCammon’s wildest, most compelling creations.
Both a furiously paced action novel and an affectionate tribute to the
SF/Horror films of an earlier era, it is vintage McCammon, and a grand,
often visceral entertainment.
The story takes place during a single twenty-four hour period in
Inferno, Texas. Inferno is a town in trouble, driven to the brink by
racial tension, gang violence, and a collapsing economy. But things can
always get worse, and they do so with astonishing speed when an
unidentified spacecraft crash lands in the desert outside of town,
followed by a second craft bearing the alien being who will soon be
known as Stinger. Stinger is a kind of interstellar hunter on a mission
he intends to complete, whatever the cost. He brings with him an endless
array of technological marvels and an infinite capacity for destruction
that threaten the existence of Inferno, its inhabitants, and the larger
world beyond.
Filled with a large cast of vividly realized characters and sporting
some of the most memorably horrific imagery you will ever encounter, Stinger
is an adrenaline-fueled narrative of the highest order, its classic,
pulp fictional elements transformed and elevated by a master
storyteller. The result is pure Robert McCammon, an engrossing, hugely
enjoyable experience that is sure to stay with you for a very long time
to come.